Re: [RFC][PATCH 06/30] make open_namei() return a filp

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 02:26:54PM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
> 
> open_namei() will, in the future, need to take mount write counts
> over its creation and truncation (via may_open()) operations.  It
> needs to keep these write counts until any potential filp that is
> created gets __fput()'d.
> 
> This gets complicated in the error handling and becomes very murky
> as to how far open_namei() actually got, and whether or not that
> mount write count was taken.
> 
> Creating the filps inside of open_namei() lets us shift the write
> count to be taken and released along with the filp.  We can hold
> a temporary write count during those creation and truncation
> operations, then release them once the write for the filp has
> been established.
> 
> Any caller who gets a 'struct file' back must consider that filp
> instantiated and fput() it normally.  The callers no longer
> have to worry about ever manually releasing a mnt write count.

This patch description is not correct anymore, open_namei is actually
gone with this patch as it got merged into do_filp_open.

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